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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol is a 1972 television film directed by George McCowan and starring Martin Landau and Jane Alexander. The screenplay concerns a soldier returning from Vietnam, where he was a POW, who finds his home town missing. It is one of the earliest films to depict post traumatic stress disorder. [1]
A Vietnam prisoner-of-war tries to return to the small New England hometown he dreamed of in captivity, but strangely, he can find no trace of it.
- George Mccowan
- Martin Landau
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol: Directed by George McCowan. With Martin Landau, Jane Alexander, Brock Peters, Martin Sheen. Psychological drama about a convalescing Vietnam War army captain who goes AWOL but cannot re-connect with his past.
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- George Mccowan
- Not Rated
- Martin Landau, Jane Alexander, Brock Peters
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Psychological drama about a convalescing Vietnam War army captain who goes AWOL but cannot re-connect with his past. An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town.
WELCOME HOME JOHNNY BRISTOL is a sorely underrated and mostly forgotten little gem of Vietnam War-related horror. MARTIN LANDAU is outstanding in the title role of a U.S. Army Captain rescued from captivity in North Vietnam and returned to the States to convalesce at an Army Hospital.
Jun 28, 2019 · Once Johnny is rescued from his captivity in Vietnam and brought back to the States, he is placed in a VA hospital to recover from the physical and mental toll the war took on him.
